Working on a premise for a mission and I was hoping to bounce it off you guys and get some feedback…

Working on a premise for a mission and I was hoping to bounce it off you guys and get some feedback…

Haitekko* Superstar Pre-teen Pop Sensation Kiki Galaxy is preparing to embark on a mega tour to promote a double release of her latest album and her debut starring role in the PlayBack** Feature (Movie name here). The months leading up to the tour kicking off have been fraught with mysterious death threats and now that the tour is about to touch down in the gritty and dangerous Neo New England Metroplex, Haitekko is taking no chances. The Team has been hired to act as a local security detail while Kiki is in the NNEM. They’re given an itinerary that will have them picking up Kiki from the airport, escorting her to the Haitekko Mega-Fan Funtime Store for an autograph session, and to oversee security during her sold out performance at the (insert fun cyberpunk name) venue that night. After the performance is over, the party will deliver Kiki to a private airport where she’ll be someone else’s problem.

* Haitekko is one of our MegaCorps devoted to all things children [entertainment, nutrition, education, etc]

** PlayBack is the name of our setting’s SimSense, BTL, Strange Days head trode thingy, but in its vanilla form it’s legal and popular.

My initial idea was that the threats would be two fold. One problem would be that the team is presented with a counter-offer from a rival corporation that wants Kiki to break contract with Haitekko and come over to them. I’m feeling like that’s a little weak right now and could probably use some spice. Maybe following through on the rival corp’s intentions for Kiki when they have her might help.

I think it would be fun to see how the characters would act when they’re put in a situation where they have to make a decision between maintaining their reputation by sticking to the job versus a higher payday at the cost of potential complications if it turns out they’re implicated in the extraction.

The second complication I had thought of would be that the death threats were coming from some creepy mega fan who had lost touch with reality. I want to avoid anything sexual, so I’m thinking this mega fan is a young adult woman who wants Kiki as a daughter, or some sort of personal doll/play thing. Still creepy, but not over the line.

I’m wondering if I should plan some sort of threat at each of the stops along the way (airport pickup, mega-fan funtime store, concert, delivery to the airport).

I’m also not real sure what kind of Legwork my players are going to want to do in a situation like this. I imagine it might be good to have some general ideas in case they come up empty handed and look to me for something. I know if I were given an itinerary as a player I might just go “ok, let’s hit these spots up and deal with the problems as we come up against them”, which feels pretty railroad-y to me.